BJP will sweep UP in lS polls: Kalyan
lucknow: Predicting a victory for Bharatiya Janata Party former Chief Minister Kalyan Singh said that the BJP would sweep Uttar Pradesh in the next lok Sabha elections because of pro-Modi wave giving a befitting reply to the other parties. “The Samajwadi Party, the Congress and the Bahujan Samaj Party would get uprooted in the next hustings and BJP would gain majority,” Singh said while talking to the newspersons here on Thursday.
Mount Abu coldest at 6.40C in Rajasthan
Jaipur: Mount Abu was the coldest place in Rajasthan with a minimum temperature of 6.4 degrees Celsius, a MeT official said. With northerly cold winds blowing over the State, Churu recorded a minimum temperature of 7.5 degrees Celsius, followed by Sriganganagar at 9 degrees Celsius. Pilani and pink city Jaipur recorded a low of 9.8, and 11 degrees Celsius respectively.
UP riots: probe panel
Gets govt extension lucknow: With probe into Muzaffarnagar riots is still in it’s primarily stage, the State Government finally sanctioned six more months time to one-member commission headed by Justice (Retd) Vishnu Sahai to complete the inquiry. Sahai had sought further extension after the two-month deadline to submit the report already expired earlier this week. The commission has been making inquiry into into Muzaffarnagar riots that left over five dozen people dead besides leaving over 50,000 homeless.
Modi a challenge for BJP, not Cong: Jaiswal
Sambhal: BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi is not a challenge for Congress, but for his own party, Union Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal said, asserting that the saffron party was “uneasy” due to his statements. “Modi is not a challenge for Congress but for his own party. BJP itself is uneasy due to his statements,” Jaiswal told reporters on Wednesday at a function here. He said the claims in favour of Modi would be “exposed” before the people. “The type of talks and tall claims made in favour of Modi will be exposed before the people.”
Prez to open N-waste unit in Kalpakkam
Chennai: President Pranab Mukherjee will on Friday inaugurate the nuclear waste immobilisation plant (WIP) of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) at Kalpakkam near here through video conferencing from Mumbai, the research agency said.
In a statement on Thursday, BARC said Mukherjee would also inaugurate four other advanced facilities set up by it.
The president will participate at the graduation function of BARC training school Friday and give the Homi Bhabha Award to the toppers in each discipline.